Political Roundtable

Nirva LaFortune, Ward 3 city councilor and candidate for mayor of Providence, is the guest this week on Political Roundtable. Topics include: Why she’s running for mayor and what she considers her best accomplishment on the council. How her experience stacks up against rival candidates; How LaFortune would choose new public safety leadership in Providence. […] The post Political Roundtable:...

Second District Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) is the guest on Political Roundtable this week. The topics include: President Biden’s two big spending priorities and what their fate will reveal; How we remember 9/11 and whether that should include more of what happened in the years afterward; The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan; How much of a […] The post Political Roundtable: Langevin on B...

Sen. Alana DiMario (D-Narragansett) of the Rhode Island Senate is the guest this week on Political Roundtable. Topics include: Whether DiMario, a self-described progressive, supports the new effort by Matt Brown and the RI Political Cooperative to establish progressive control of state government; How the cooperative’s ongoing focus on the state Senate is likely to […] The post Political Rou...

Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner, who announced his campaign Tuesday for governor, is the guest this week on Political Roundtable. Some of the topics: The cost of his campaign proposals and how he would pay for them; How he rates former Gov. Gina Raimondo on economic issues; Whether his longest-held job, as treasurer, qualifies […] The post Political Roundtable: Magaziner on his...

State Rep. Gregg Amore (D-East Providence), who is set to announce next Wednesday his 2022 run for secretary of state, is the guest this week on Political Roundtable. Topics include: Voting and elections in the post-Trump era; Why lawmakers have not put in place early voting and other measures that proved popular during the pandemic; […] The post Political Roundtable: Amore on voting, electi...

Rhode Island House Whip Katherine Kazarian (D-East Providence) is the guest this week on Political Roundtable. Topics include: Kazarian’s approach to her role as whip in trying to forge agreement among different factions of Democrats; Why progressives are mounting more challenges to the status quo at the Statehouse; Kazarian’s description of her identity as a […] The post Political Roundtabl...

Gun rights advocate Brenda Jacob of West Greenwich is the guest this week on Political Roundtable. Topics include why gun sales have soared and whether this makes the nation more or less safe. Why the U.S. has so much gun violence. Whether it’s wrong to think that typical gun owners can disrupt a violent episode. […] The post Political Roundtable: Jacob on guns, gun violence & more appe...

Rhode Island Commerce Secretary Stefan Pryor joins Political Roundtable this week. The topics include: Jobs and the economy; The outlook on the Superman Building; Pryor’s expected run next year for state general treasurer; and more. The post Political Roundtable: Pryor on RI’s economy, Superman Building, his expected treasurer run, and more appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .

A string of violent episodes has sparked heightened concern about crime in Rhode Island’s capital city, Providence. Police say most categories of crime are down. But there are a lot of guns on the street, things always get worse in the summer, and the city has struggled to resolve problems with ATV and dirt bike […] The post Special Roundtable: Elorza on Providence; Escobar on Millennial RI;...

State Sen. Tiara Mack (D-Providence) is the guest this week on Political Roundtable. Mack, 27, stormed the Statehouse last year by defeating long-term Democratic incumbent Harold Metts, in a district that runs from Mount Hope to Upper South Providence. Issues discussed in our discussion include: Recent violence in Providence. The Providence Teachers Union contract. The […] The post Political...

This week, we have a special extended edition of Political Roundtable with RI Speaker of the House Joe Shekarchi, educator and progressive activist Enrique Sanchez and our own Ana Gonzalez, host of Mosaic. The post Political Roundtable: Speaker Shekarchi, the progressive challenge to RI Dems, and how Mosaic explores immigration appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha is my guest on Political Roundtable this week. The topics include: Why shootings and some other crimes are on the rise; The impact of Rhode Island’s new gun laws; How to bolster police accountability; The proposed combination of Lifespan, Care New England, and Brown University in an academic health […] The post Political Roundtable: Neronha on guns...

Two years ago, a Johns Hopkins University report painted a devastating picture of the schools in Providence. The report found that most students were not learning at their grade level, teachers were demoralized, and most parents felt shut out of their children’s education. The post Political Roundtable: The state of education in Rhode Island appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .

Rhode Island Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green sits down for a one-on-one interview this week on Political Roundtable. We talk about the state takeover of the Providence schools. The conflict between Infante-Green and the Providence Teachers Union. Infante-Green’s communication with Gov. Dan McKee. Why suburban students in RI lag their counterparts in Massachusetts. and more. Ian [&#82...

Steve Brown, executive director of the RI ACLU, is the guest this week on Political Roundtable. Joining me on the panel are URI emeritus professor of political science Maureen Moakley and WPRI-TV reporter Steph Machado. The topics include: The lack of progress at the General Assembly this year on the Law Enforcement Officers Bill of […] The post Political Roundtable: Brown on the 2021 legisl...

Linda Finn, the executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence, joins Political Roundtable as our guest this week. Also joining the panel are URI emeritus professor of political science Maureen Moakley and Amanda Milkovits, reporter for The Boston Globe. Topics include: Ian Donnis can be reached at idonnis@ripr.org. Follow him on Twitter […] The post Political Roundtab...

Rep. Michael Chippendale (R-Foster), the second-ranking Republican in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, joins Political Roundtable as our guest this week. Joining me on the panel are URI emeritus professor of political science Maureen Moakley and Patrick Anderson, Statehouse reporter for The Providence Journal. Topics include: Why a hike in the state income tax […] The post Politica...

Col. Hugh Clements, chief of the Providence Police Department, is the guest this week on Political Roundtable. Joining me on the panel are URI emeritus professor of political science Maureen Moakley and Ted Nesi, politics/economics editor for WPRI-TV, Channel 12. The topics include: Whether other groups and organizations should play a bigger role in responding […] The post Political Roundtab...

Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea is the guest this week on Political Roundtable. Dan McGowan from The Boston Globe and URI emeritus professor of political science Maureen Moakley join the panel. Topics include: Gorbea’s recently announced 2022 run for governor; Whether she supports more charter schools; The state takeover of the Providence schools; […] The post Political Roundta...

Matt Weldon, director of the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training, is the guest on Political Roundtable this week. Joining me on the panel are Boston Globe reporter Brian Amaral and URI emeritus professor of political science Maureen Moakley. Topics discussed during Roundtable include: Whether Rhode Island and the U.S. have a labor shortage; […] The post Political Roundtable: Weldon...

Jim Vincent, president of the Providence NAACP, is our guest on Political Roundtable this week. The topics include: The post Political Roundtable: Vincent on gun violence, Providence schools, RI equity council & more appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio .

Kate Coyne-McCoy, chief strategist for the RI Democratic Party, is our guest this week on Political Roundtable. Ed Fitzpatrick from The Boston Globe and Maureen Moakley, emeritus professor of political science at URI, join the panel this week. The topics include: Ian Donnis can be reached at idonnis@ripr.org. Follow him on Twitter @IanDon. Sign up […] The post Political Roundtable: Coyne-McC...

State Rep. Rebecca Kislak (D-Providence), who was first elected in 2018, is our guest this week on Political Roundtable. Joining me on the panel are Patrick Anderson, Statehouse reporter for The Providence Journal, and Maureen Moakley, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island. Here’s a lightly edited transcript of our conversation: […] The post Political Roun...

U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is the guest on Political Roundtable this week. The topics include: — How Democrats should respond to demographic shifts favoring Republicans; — Whether President Biden is courting a backlash with his spending proposals; — Whether Biden is smarter than President Obama in working with Congress; — The outlook on climate change. The post Political Roundtable: Whitehouse o...

State Rep. Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung (R-Cranston) joins Political Roundtable this week. The panel includes Steph Machado from WPRI, Channel 12, and URI emeritus professor of political science Maureen Moakley. Here’s a partial transcript of the conversation: Donnis: Let’s start with the big story of the week the verdict in the George Floyd case. This is […] The post Political Rountable: Fenton-...